1958.2: Fantasy View of the Ponte Molle, Rome and the Abbey of Saint Nilus at Grottaferrata

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1958.2

People

Attributed to Jacob de Heusch, Dutch (Utrecht 1656 - 1701 Amsterdam)

Title

Fantasy View of the Ponte Molle, Rome and the Abbey of Saint Nilus at Grottaferrata

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1690-1700

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/311663

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

sight: 51.75 x 115.89 cm (20 3/8 x 45 5/8 in.)
framed: 68.58 x 134.62 x 8.89 cm (27 x 53 x 3 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• label: brass plaque "LENT BY HARVARD UNIVERSITY"
• label: information, see painting file.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Mary Lee Ware, bequest; to Harvard University, 1937, transferred; to Fogg Art Museum, 1958

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from Harvard University, Bequest of Mary Lee Ware, 1937

Accession Year

1958

Object Number

1958.2

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1972), p. 229 [as 18th century Italian school]
• Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990)
• Andrea Busiri Vici, Jacob de Heusch (1656-1701) un pittore olandese a roma detto il "copia", Ugo Bozzi Editore (Rome, Italy, 1997), p. 101, repr.

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